Holding white roses, classmates gathered at the local church and cemetery to pay their last respects to 11-year-old Vasilis, who was killed Monday when a boiler exploded at his primary school in Serres, northern Greece.
More than two decades after a tiny Greek Orthodox church in lower Manhattan was destroyed by the falling south tower of the World Trade Center, that church’s far grander replacement opened to the public this week in an elevated park overlooking the rebuilt trade center’s memorial plaza.
By the end of the week, banks are expected to have sent their proposal for supporting vulnerable households with a mortgage to the European Central Bank’s Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), in the hopes of gaining its approval.
The Fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, notes that “North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies should not conduct unauthorized territorial overflights of another NATO ally’s airspace.”
In a renewed escalation, Ankara has threatened to invade the Greek islands if Greece does not demilitarize them. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said if Athens does not comply with the demand, then Turkey will either challenge the sovereignty of the islands or will “suddenly arrive overnight.” He made his statements at a joint press…
Socialist leader Nikos Androulakis has resorted to the European Court of Human Rights over his wiretapping by the National Intelligence Agency (EYP).
Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias referred in an interview on public broadcaster ERT on Tuesday to the interventions implemented to strengthen winter tourism, so that Greece welcomes travelers throughout the year.
Low-cost airline Volotea has announced a new international connection from Athens to the city of Toulouse in France as of next summer.
Like most nerds who read science fiction, I’ve spent a lot of time wondering how society will greet true artificial intelligence, if and when it arrives. Will we panic? Start sucking up to our new robot overlords? Ignore it and go about our daily lives?